Driving on the Technology Highway of Hong Kong
Free Seminar -
March Section
To
focus and stimulate technology transfer and development of
respective critical components industries in Optics, Mechanical,
Electronics, Magnetic, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
and IT,
TechMart
of Hong Kong Productivity Council
is
liaising with Hong Kong
Critical Components Manufacturers Association (HKCCMA), America
Hong Kong Electronics Association (AHKEA) and Hong Kong
Optoelectronics Association (HKOEA) to support and
serve the role to foster technology exchange, transfer and
commercialization of respective critical components industries
between Hong Kong, China and overseas.
TechMart joins with AHKEA, HKCCMA
and HKOEA to organize and provide a series of monthly free
seminars scheduled on Monday, the second week of each month.
The
March
Section was
held on Mar. 8,
2004 at
CEPA Business
Centre,
5/F HKPC Building.
The following two talks were presented:
Title :
"MIDS:
The future of Mobile Input Devices"
Guest Speaker:
Prof. Wen J. Li, Director, Centre for Micro and Nano Systems,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Recently, relatively low-cost and fully-integrated MEMS motion
sensor chips have become a commercial reality. The dramatic
reduction in physical volume and power consumption of these new
micro motion sensors, coupled with the rapid advancement of
wireless technology, will enable the development of many novel
technological products in the next decade. Projected
applications in the next 5 years span from self-powered
networked motion sensors that will monitor environmental
conditions in smart homes, manufacturing plants, and battle
fields, to ultra-small wireless motion sensing systems that will
allow users to interact with mobile devices or record the
position and speed of moving subjects. This presentation will
focus on our recent success in merging MEMS sensing and wireless
technologies to develop miniaturized novel computer interface
devices (Micro Input Devices System or MIDS) that may eventually
replace the mouse, keyboard, and pointer. Fundamental working
principles of the MEMS motion sensor and the MIDS system
architecture will be discussed. A live demo will be provided to
show how a MIDS "finger ring" can be used to interact with
existing game software on PCs and PDAs, and eventually new
gaming applications on mobile phones.
Title :
PhotoRite™ –
Automatic Image Enhancement Technology and Its Applications
Guest Speaker: Mr.
Jason Ho, General Manager, Zensis Ltd.
Images taken by camera are not always desirable. For example,
backlighting and under-exposure problems occur quite often.
These problems also appear in photos taken by top digital camera
models. PhotoRite™ is a fully automatic image processing
solution which targeted to correct these common problems and
improve the visual quality of the captured image so that the
processed image will be close to what human eye can see. With
PhotoRite™ applied to different imaging devices e.g.
surveillance camera, the output images can be ensured to have
clear details rather than having important details hidden in
shaded areas. In the seminar, some demonstrations and potential
applications of the technology will be presented.
After the
seminar, they provided the demonstration for the participates.
The event was successfully ended at 5:15 pm.
Organizer:
Co-organizers
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